Author: Sam
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Sunday Soup
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By its nature, not a beautiful soup, one of the reasons I’ve left an image out. But it is an extremely simple, wholesome and tasty vegetable soup that I wouldn’t…
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Orange Panna Cotta
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Perfect panna cotta. Texture is smooth and dense but wobbly, taste is just caressed with orange, but still predominantly creamy. Just delightful. The most important thing to learn from this…
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Slow Cooked Sweet n Sour
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This was by no means bad… But it’s not how I would make sweet and sour again. Not authentic, not quick, and a huge amount of prep. From 200 Slow…
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Lamb Chops, Lemon & Mint
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Extremely simple, extremely nice. Modified the potatoes such that once the lamb was cooked and resting, I dumped the boiled ‘news’ into the pan with the oil and mint mix,…
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Mushroom and Lentil Braise
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If I was to do this again I would be certain to use a very full bodied wine, and probably a stronger stock. And at least in my slow cooker…
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Greek Kofte with Tahini Dip
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A good, meaty veggie dish with powerful flavours. Needs a sharp element to contrast the flavour and texture, such as the pickled beetroot here, not in the recipe but works…
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Lamb and Sweet Potato Tagine
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Substituting sausage meat for lamb mince and sweet potato for squash, as the original recipe asks for. However I’d do this every time, I think. Although there is room for…
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Casserole-Roast Chicken, Shallots, Garlic & Marjoram
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Real tasty. The sweet, whole roasted garlic, squeezed out from their papery shells onto potatoes and chicken is a delight. The sauce formed naturally in the casserole savoury and effortless.…
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Vanilla Fairy Cakes
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Excellent, airy fairy cake recipe, and a remarkably smooth butter cream that works well in the context on the whole, and even more so with an added, sliced and macerated…
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Bream with Celery & Avgolemono Sauce
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Wonderful way to cook bream, a lovely, firm flavourful and unavoidably spiky fish. The avegolemono sauce is a creamy one, achieved in a carbonara like fashion, delicate flavoured the…